Cigar-wrapper cutter and rolling table.



PATENTED SEPT. I, 1908.

B. LIBERI/IAN. CIGAR WRAPPER CUTTER AND ROLLING TABLE..

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 30,1906.

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BERNARD LIBERMAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CIGAR-WRAPPER CUTTER AND ROLLING TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

Application led October 30, 1906. Serial No. 341,263.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNARD LIBERMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, having invented a new and useful Cigar-Tapper Cutter and Rolling Table, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cigar wrapper cutter and rolling tables, and is especia y directed towards improvements in the cutting dies used in connection therewith. l

My invention comprises improved means for forming the cutting die in a simple and inexpensive way and so that the same shall be efficient and durable and also shall be less liable to injure the roller coperating therewith, than the cutting dies now in common use.

Referring to the drawings :-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cigar wrapper cutter and rolling table, containing my improved structure. Fig. 2 is a plan view of my improved die with the platen surrounded thereby. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 3, 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on line 4, 4 of Fig. 2.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

My improved cutting die is composed of the normally straight band 5 made of resilient sheet metal of such length as to completely fill the interior contour of the socket body 6. The opposite ends of said band 5 shall meet as at 7, Fig. 4. The amount of separation between the opposite ends of band 5 is shown as exaggerated at 7, Fig. 4 simply for clearness. As a matter of fact the opposite ends touch and form a comparatively or substantially unbroken continuous cutting edge of the knife around its entire contour. The body 6 is provided with a shoulder as at S to form a stop for the lower edge of the band 5 and also for the inner coperating body 9 which has a contour as to its external periphery conforming to the contour of the interior' margin of body 6 so that after the band 5 has been inserted in body 6 the body 9 is forced within the band 5 down within body 6 until it has engaged with the shoulder 8 thereby cooperating with body 6 to form a clamp or vise for holding the band or knife 5 positively and firmly in position. The body 9 is preferably beveled slightly at its lower edge, as indicated at 10, for convenience of insertion and so that when it has reached the final position as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the upper part of body 9 forms a clamp with body 6 of maximum efficiency. It will thus be obvious that when the band 5 has been inserted as above described, in socket body 6, and the body 9 has been forced with considerable pressure into position within band 5 and body 6, a structure is formed of the three parts which will maintain their relative positions without any further instrumentality and against considerable force to cause their disassembling.

The body 9 is for considerations of lightnessand economy of metal recessed as at 11 and 12. It is also rovided with the sockets 13 forming seats ffir the springs 14 which surround the bolts 15 which are secured to the platen 16 and which project through apertures formed in member 9. On the lower side of which member 9 are secured the nuts 17 for maintaining the proper adjustment or level of platen 16 against the pressure exerted by springs 14.

One of the advantages of the knife band 5 being of resilient sheet metal is that there is such resiliency in the knife as to enable it to yield when struck by the roller and preventing the nicking of the edge of said knife which is a constant source of trouble in knives cut from solid and unyielding metal. For a similar reason the nicking of the roller is prevented.

The simplicity of the structure comprising band 5 and members 6 and 9 serves to greatly reduce the cost of forming the same and results in a die far more durable than any heretofore known, and, there being no screws or bolts to maintain the three parts in relative position7 there is nothing to get loose, and consequently the liability of displacement of any of said parts is reduced to a minimum.

What I claim is 1. In a cigar wrapper cutter, the combination of a cutting die comprising a band of resilient sheet metal suitably held in the required contour, and a coperating roller adapted to sweep the cutting edge of the die.

2. In a cigar wrapper cutter, the combination of a cutting die comprising a band of resilient sheet metal suitably held in the required contour, and a coperating roller adapted to sweep the cutting edge of the die, the said die adapted to yield` slightly, due to lresiliency of the band forming to be out thereby, and the die, due to the 10 the same, adapted to yield when first struck by the roller, as and for the purpose speeiied.

BERNARD LIBERMAN.

Witnesses:

MAE HOFMANN, HOWARD S. OKIE. 

